How to Make A Million Dollars (Season 3, Episode 6)

In “How to Make a Million Dollars,” the sixth episode of Season 3 of “Futurismo,” we chat with Jim Adler, managing director of Toyota AI Ventures, the Japanese carmaker’s venture capital arm.He has invested in companies ranging from lidar sensor developers to low-level autonomous shuttle providers. We talk to Adler about how he found his way to venture capital, what a startup needs to do to impress him and why corporate investors — such as himself — can sometimes “smother” startups. Go to your favorite podcast source to hear the full episode or check it out above.